Making sure your workers have top-notch skills isn’t cheap: According to the Training Industry Report, U.S. training expenditures rose 32 percent year over year, reaching $90.6 billion. The report broke this figure down into the following categories: Outside training products and services accounted for $7.5 billion, while other expenditures such as travel, equipment, and facilities represented $44 billion, and payroll for in-house educators accounted for $41.6 billion. If you’re going to spend a pile of money on your employee training and development, how do you get the biggest ROI? Below ar ..read more

The so-called “war for talent” has been raging hot ever since the phrase was coined in a McKinsey report back in 1998. In the past 20+ years, not much has changed — in fact, unemployment numbers came in at just 3.5 percent, which means that you probably have several positions to fill, and fewer prospects than ever to step into key roles.  For HR professionals, the war for talent is the new normal, and your department is held accountable for recruiting, retention, and even overall performance. Each of these responsibilities is fraught with difficulty:  Recruitin ..read more

Every employee at your organization has their own story, a unique journey that has shaped them and affected your company in turn. Understanding these journeys — and how your organization can transform them for the better — is one of HR’s most important responsibilities. Fortunately, while each employee’s experience is personal, they also have some key similarities. Every story will involve how the employee heard about your organization, how they were recruited and onboarded, why they’ve stayed with your company, and how their time at your organization has changed them. These similarities for ..read more

Hiring the right people has always been fundamental to the success of every business. Today, getting qualified and dedicated workers on board is more complicated than ever. In the age of remote working, new hires need additional skills. That means things like knowing how to do video conferencing or self-motivation. What’s more, how you hire has had to change dramatically. Anything that can make your HR life easier is a godsend. An employee referral program can do just that. Employee referral programs have grown in popularity for HR professionals and for good reason. According to CareerBuilde ..read more

The dominos are starting to fall as companies across the world are making the announcement: remote work is here to stay. With giants like Twitter, Square, Facebook, and Microsoft leading the way, distributed teams could be 100 percent virtual and (if it happens at all) it could take months for people to meet in person for the first time. With this change happening so fast, it’s time to consider how attracting and recruiting top talent changes, and what we can do about it. Recruiting remote workers changes the playing field for both employers and potential hires.   As of last year, Ameri ..read more

Remote employees are more productive and less costly, and these benefits are vital to organizations in a stressed economy. As your company recognizes the efficiency that a remote workforce offers, it’s likely that you’ll hire and onboard some of your new people at a distance. When you create a strong onboarding process, it sets the tone for the employee’s entire experience with your company. Unfortunately, only 12 percent of employees “strongly agree their organization does a great job of onboarding.” That means that 88 percent of companies are currently falling short when it comes to this e ..read more

Think of the craziest thing you could do to convince the most qualified candidate to accept a job offer. Would you meet them in Second Life over a virtual cup of coffee? Would you approach them through Tinder? These gamification scenarios might sound a bit crazy or ahead of time. But allow us to say they’re not. Both of them are real examples of gamification in recruitment. For example, Eurowings kicked off a clever recruiting campaign that converted each job post into a Tinder profile, and job seekers could either swipe left or swipe right. In a world of start-up ping pong tables, and emplo ..read more

In recent years, the hiring world has placed an emphasis on attracting millennial talent, and for good reason: millennials are the largest generation in the U.S. labor force, according to Pew Research Center. This generation, however, is a bit different from those that came before them. They’re looking for more than a paycheck. They want transparency, feedback, experiences and the chance to explore their passions. Your challenge is attracting this millennial talent for your business. Here are seven ways to make that happen, from bringing a more authentic voice to the experience to engaging w ..read more

A recent study reports that turnover in the financial services and banking industry is higher than it’s been in a decade. To add fuel to the fire, this report also shows that more than two-thirds of employees leaving their jobs do so voluntarily. Add this to the fact, that the competition to identify and hire top talent is perhaps fiercer today than ever before. If banks and financial services institutions want to build a strong workforce that will help them advance well into the future, now is the time to develop a strategy to finally win the war on talent. The number one thing employers in ..read more

Long gone are the days where we simply checked in and checked out of work. With the average American working 47 hours a week, and many working over 50, work isn’t just something we do, it is an indicator of who we are, who we spend our time with, and what problems we are interested in solving. Why then is it 16% of the global workforce is engaged, and only 17% here at home are engaged? If a prospective employee’s first touch point with a company isn’t someone who already works there, it is likely the job description on the career page or job board. This posting is intended to, as aptly named ..read more